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think as they died? >> just see my pretty face. the last thing they ever saw was me, and if they carry that glimpse to eternity, infitynityr whatever it is, they're going to be thinking of me all that time. ♪ welcome to "very scary people." i'm donny wallberg. he was living a double life. he seemed like a quiet husband and father, but he was a vicious cold-blooded killer.

richard kuklinsky was a part-time hitman and a full-time psychopath. he was so skilled at killing and covering up his crimes that to this day, the true extent of his sins is unknown. so how did kuklinsky evade capture for so long, even i can't believe the story you're about to hear. here is part one of "the ice man." in september of 1983, a fellow that was working for the road department in orange town, new york, was cutting grass on a roadway and he saw a series of

plastic bags and he thought he saw flesh. he went over and looked at it and it was a body. he was brought to the medical examiner's office and examined. several interesting things came from that. this subject after he had been killed had been methodically wrapped in plastic. >> 27 layers of garbage bags. and it looks at first as if perhaps he'd recently died. this turned out to be louis masgay. >> he disappeared in july 1981. >> two years before the body was found. >> but he had the same clothes on that he disappeared in two years prior. they knew that this was pretty strange. even more interesting is they found what they termed as ice crystal artifacts.

>> which indicated he in fact had been frozen. >> the hope that the time of death would be not known. >> later we were able to establish that mr. mazgay had been taken to a garage in north jersey. that garage we believe was a killing ground. >> and he was shot once in the back of the head. >> then took his body and placed it in a freezer where it remained for approximately two years. >> until it was dumped. >> that particular crime was the genesis of the name ice man. >> we knew we were looking for somebody who had literally frozen a person. >> an evil person. evil to the core. one part of my life i killed people for nothing, just for someone to look at me wrong i would kill him.

>> from what we understand, kuklinski got a job working in a film lab in new york city where he was dealing with videotapes and making duplicate copies, and he also segued into making copies of pornographic films. >> he met a man named roy deit mayo through the underground pornography industry. he was a soldier within the gambino crime family and best known for killing people. he had a crew of sociopathics basically who operated out of the gemini lounge. >> they used to chop up people in the gemini lounge just like in the sopranos where they put them in the bathtub, they chopped them up and got rid of the bodies. >> demayo saw kuklisn sky as

somebody who could be an asset for him. >> it wasn't long before demayo discovered that kuklinski was more valuable as a killer. roy demayo said kill this guy here. >> it was a guy walking his dog. didn't know the man. could have been me walking down the street, could have been anybody. >> richard got out, he shot this man, and at that point roy demayo knew that richard had essentially what it takes, and

that's how richard got into the business of murdering people for profit. from that point from there, he launched a career being what he represented as one of the most prolific mob killers. >> it's interesting because a person like kuklinski the one area of knowledge, his base foundation of knowledge was in killing. >> he really prided himself it seems on the various ways and different ways in which he killed people. >> according to kuklinski he killed with firearms, with knives. he also strangled. he said that he killed an individual that was involved in

a pornography business. he said that he went there and he rang the doorbell and the person asked who was there and when that person looked through the peephole. >> he squeezed the trigger and blew the guy's head off. >> on another occasion, he stated that he had thrown a person off a building in hawaii. >> in one case he claimed to have allowed rats to eat a person alive. >> he talked about how he had some people beg for mercy. >> kuklinski was a different breed. a different breed. >> normally, when we think of serial murder, we think of the lust killer, someone who's getting perverse sexual satisfaction of killing. however, there are a number of types of serial murderers. we have another type who kills for profit and a serial killer who kills for power and control,

and those two seem to be fused for him in most cases. >> he did it because he liked it. >> he had no remorse whatsoever. he loves that stuff. he's into it. >> he was a killing machine. he could do it on a moment's notice, with no hesitation, no conscience. >> this guy, i thought made richard ramirez, the night stalker, seem like a quiet boy lost in the woods. believe it or not, he was truly a devoted family man. >> he kept his work life very separate from his family. >> richard kuklinski married barbara in 1961, and they had three children -- two girls and a boy. >> he loved them more than anything. they were his pride and joy. >> they moved to dumont, new jersey, which is a pretty nice town, and lived a suburban lifestyle. none of his neighbors had any clue who this guy was who lived

next door. >> he was a dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. he had a duality that is very, very, very rare. he could be the nicest, sweetest, giving guy, a good neighbor, somebody you want to live next door, and the next minute, he could be slowly torturing somebody. >> his wife, barbara, told me she really didn't know too much about what he did. i think she knew him as a businessman. i don't think she knew much more than that.

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>> he liked that the victims were looking directly at him. pleasure from seeing someone terrified in the sense of power and control. >> shot a guy one time in his adam's apple, see how long it would take him to die. >> how long did it take? >> a few minutes. he drowned, actually. >> drowned on his blood? >> mm-hmm. i was with somebody else. we had a $50 bet. i lost. >> richard kuklinski was a mafia contract killer, but he was also a freelance killer. he would do jobs on the side.

>> he became involved in a series of what we would call the commercial murders. >> after making contact with somebody, he would lure them into thinking that he was able to provide a quantity of something that that person was looking for, whether it be video tapes, whether it be a pharmaceutical product, and he got them to bring cash to locations with the hope of making a score. >> and all of a sudden, they weren't seen again. nor was the money. >> he didn't just rob them. he would kill them so they could never come back and say anything about him. >> then the money would dry up in spells, and he'd have to go out on the hunt again, just like a lion in africa trying to select his prey, then come home with the goodies. >> in 1980, kuklinski met up with a man named george malliband. >> malliband's brother had indicated he was supposed to

meet somebody. the purpose was to buy video tapes, and he had to bring cash. >> i was sitting in the van. i'm in the driver's seat. georgie boy was over here in the next seat, which was, you know, just like that. and i went pop-pop-pop. and then i went pop-pop. >> he was shot by kuklinski. his body was taken and it was put in a 50-gallon drum. kuklinski couldn't get his body into the drum because malliband was a large male, and he cut his legs, the ligaments, so he could bend his legs and stuff him into the drum. >> and then he tossed it from a cliff. >> his body was found on february 5th in a jersey city industrial area.

>> as the state police and the local authorities investigated that murder, they had very few leads. >> case didn't go anywhere at the time. nowhere. they had a body in a barrel, they had some ballistics. so, it was a completely unsolved crime. >> you have said of richard, "there are two richards. i never knew who would be walking in the door. he could be generous to a fault, or the meanest man on earth." tell us more about that. >> that's true. he was kind, considerate, you know, he would have done anything for all of us. very generous gifts and flowers and the best dinners and nice wine. but when whatever twisted him,

whatever happened, it didn't matter how good those times were, because the bad was so bad. >> and he abused you, physically? >> he certainly did. >> what did he do? >> stabbed me, broke my nose, lost consciousness many times, strangled me, would wake up, you know, at 2:00 in the morning with a pillow over my face, and he would tell me that he'd decided that was the day i die. >> so, the idea that he may have killed you was not outside of the realm of possibilities? >> absolutely not. >> merrick, he talked to you about that. what did he say? >> he had said that if he ever went too far with mom -- >> killed her. >> right. that i would have to understand that he would have to get rid of all of us because he could leave no witnesses, and that it would be hardest. >> he'd have to kill you? and how old were you when he told you this? >> that was probably about 14. >> your father said, "if i accidentally kill your mother in a fit of rage, i'm gonna have to kill you, too?" >> mm-hmm.

but that could have happened at any time during the rages, that he could have slipped and killed any of us, all of us. >> and you accepted that? >> a lot of times, that might have been easier. >> there was no choice. what was the choice? >> what did you think of your father? >> merrick and him were very close. i was not close with him. i was more -- i protected my mother, and that was where my alliance laid. >> merrick, you made excuses for him? for his behavior at home? >> i don't know if it was excuses, per say, but i think that i tried to make him see different, to try to calm him, and so my role was to try to keep him happy. >> right. >> to keep him calm, so that the outbursts were less. good dad was always overshadowed, but bad dad could be there any second. we had to be the "perfect" family. smiling and -- >> that's the difference. when he was around, we had to

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>> probably the smartest thing that richard kuklinski did as a hitman or as a killer was to leave very little trace of what he had done. >> one of the methods richard used to kill and actually preferred was cyanide. >> cyanide is a toxin that can work very fast on the body. it's a really potent toxin, meaning that it doesn't take much in the way of milligrams to cause toxicity. kuklinski used a number of different means of delivery of cyanide. he talked about putting it on food.

there's also injection. >> he could walk into a bar, bump elbows with a guy, he's got cyanide in the drink. >> spill the drink on him and leave. everybody just looks around, thinks you're a drunk or that you just had an accident or something, and meanwhile, it's soaking through their clothes into their pores and into their system, and eventually, they'll die. >> then there's the spray in the face that he talked about. >> you can put it into a spray bottle. >> i was walking down the street. i mean, it's crowded. i went by the guy and made believe i was sneezing. i had a handkerchief over my nose. and i bumped into the guy. and i kept walking. and this guy -- they thought he had a heart attack.

>> guy takes five, no more than 10 steps, falls to the ground. there's no turning around from that at all. not at all. once they ingest that into their system, it's gonna kill you. >> as a murderer, i can see where kuklinski thought this was a good method. because there's always the problem of the body. he wants to take somebody out. they suddenly look like they're having a heart attack. no one thinks it's cyanide. >> chris, did you ever wonder why your mom didn't take you and flee the situation? >> oh, many times. >> and? >> i begged her to "please, let's get out of here. let's leave. let's go someplace." there wasn't anywhere to go. >> they planned to poison him, barbara and chris. they actually were planning to kill him, but they realized that if they tried to do it and it didn't work, that he would kill them.

>> paul hoffman was a pharmacist in new jersey. >> at the time, the drug tagamet was very popular and was being ordered in large quantities by a lot of the populace. >> it was a very expensive drug. >> hoffman wanted this drug that kuklinski said he had. i don't know what the price was going back then, but let's just say if the going price for the medicine was $5, he was gonna buy it for under a dollar. you can make a ton of money. >> richard kuklinski told hoffman that somebody was gonna deliver a van filled with tagamet for him, and hoffman emptied out his bank account. >> he had, i believe it was, $20,000 or $25,000 in cash. >> kuklinski had paul hoffman

come to his garage on new kirk avenue, and he closed the door. >> and he says, "how am i gonna get this merchandise?" i put the gun under his chin, and i said, "there is no merchandise." and i shot him. >> paul hoffman did not die. he was struggling and gurgling, and richard tried to shoot him again, and the gun malfunctioned. >> so, kuklinski took a tire iron out and beat him to death. >> he then took his body and he put it in a 50-gallon drum, and

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>> welcome back to "very scary people". by 1982, police said richard kuklinski had killed three men in new jersey -- george malliband, louis masgay, and paul hoffman -- as part of what was dubbed his commercial murders. the murders were committed and the bodies dumped in three different jurisdictions, and though kuklinski was thought to be the last person to see each of them alive, these killings were unsolved and unlinked for a long time. but all that was about to change. >> in the 1980s, kuklinski began working with a small crime ring in the northern part of new jersey. >> they were doing house burglaries and stolen cars and stuff like that. >> richard kuklinski was the boss. underneath him was percy house. two of the more productive of his crew, if you call it that, were gary smith and danny deppner.

>> i had 40 house burglaries in a three-county area, and i had an informant with me that was part of the crew. i said to him one day, "where's all these proceeds going to?" he says, "you don't want to know." i said, "why don't i want to know?" he says, "because the guy running this whole thing -- if he finds out that you're onto him, he's coming after you." he said, "he is the most vicious person i've ever seen, i've ever heard of. all he has to do is look at you and you feel like you're running for the hills." i said, "give me his name. i want his name." he gave me the name richard kuklinski. >> after time, there was enough evidence to indict several of those individuals on several charges regarding stolen property, including gary smith and danny deppner. although there was not enough

connection to implicate richard kuklinski. >> kuklinski knew that deppner and smith posed a real threat to him. >> they could possibly talk and give him up. >> building on his lifelong evolution of a killer, these were risks that for him, were unacceptable. >> and he got rid of them. one by one. >> kuklinski took gary and danny off the street and moved them to a series of motels. eventually, they were put into the york motel. richard would visit them, bring them food, tell them not to leave the room under any circumstances. >> on december 23rd, kuklinski decided that he was gonna kill gary smith. >> kuklinski got together with deppner and smith for a meal. they ordered hamburgers.

kuklinski decided that he would kill smith by poisoning him with cyanide. >> cyanide looks like just salt, table salt. so, kuklinski had mixed cyanide in the ketchup that was then brought on a hamburger to gary smith. >> gary smith started to eat the hamburger. >> gary got about halfway through. his eyes went goofy and rolled back in his head, and he just fell back on the bed. he was gagging and trying to breathe. kuklinski went next to the bed, ripped the lamp cord off of the lamp, threw it to danny. >> and he then ordered danny deppner to finish him off with the cord, which danny deppner did. >> he got behind him, put the cord around his neck and choked off his airstream. >> gary smith's body was then placed under the mattress in the

bedroom of the hotel, and it remained there for a number of days. >> the room was rented out to several guests several times. they had no idea that this guy's corpse was underneath it before the owner finally got the hotel staff to find it and call the cops. >> there was decay that had occurred, and so the body had actually turned the skin dark in color, to the point where they thought it was an african-american male initially. >> kuklinski knows that there's someone else who has to be eliminated from the case, and that's mr. deppner. >> in may of 1983, danny deppner's body was found up by a reservoir in the woods and wrapped in multiple layers of garbage bags. when i got to the scene, i remember saying to myself, "you son of a [bleep], i'm gonna get you now. come hell or high water, i'm going to get you.

and that's when i started to zero in on him. we found three reports that were sitting in, like, a dead file going nowhere. hoffman, masgay, and malliband. >> the police made the connection that richard kuklinski appeared to be the last person who had been seen by these three men who subsequently were murdered. >> when i discovered that, i go, "oh. wow. how many people did this guy kill?" >> they didn't have anything that linked kuklinski to these cases for sure. given that kuklinski was pretty experienced has having been a mob hitman, he knew how to cover his tracks. he was very careful about making sure nobody would ever find out what he had done. >> they had a lot of disparate crimes, and because kuklinski was actively working to eliminate evidence, they were still lacking with proof beyond a reasonable doubt. >> they needed to find a way to link kuklinski to all these different murders.

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>> i am what you call a person's nightmare. because of the way i project myself, people think they ain't getting by, and then all of a sudden, when they wake up, it's too late. >> one of the dynamics we look at is how did richard get into the business of being a killer? >> what was the template upon which this mass murderer was formed? >> well, basically, richard was a severely abused child. >> richard kuklinski was born april 11th, 1935 in jersey city, new jersey. >> kuklinski had three siblings. they were florian, roberta, and joseph. his family was not well off. >> richard had a very difficult

upbringing. his father, according to richard, was physically abusive. beat him, beat other members of the family. >> he wrapped a garrison belt around his fist, and he hit them in the head and knocked them out. >> and his mother was verbally abusive, very strict, and at times, would also beat him with a broom. there's a lack of love in that family and quite a bit of what i would call brutality. >> so, that's really not a very good environment, i would say. >> richard's brother, florian, died at approximately age eight. initially, what was believed, that he had fallen down the stairs and sustained injuries from that fall. richard has said that actually, what happened was that florian was beaten to death by his father.

>> the impact i think stayed with him his whole life. >> i asked him, "do you have any regrets, richard?" and he said, "yeah, i regret not killing my father." he hated his father. >> the question is often raised, "is killing genetic?" particularly, if an individual comes from a violent home. if the child is genetically at risk, if that child is raised in a violent home, it's likely the combination of both, and in richard's case, from what we know, it was likely both. what's particularly odd in this case is that richard was not the only killer in the family. >> richard kuklinski had a brother by the name of joseph. >> in 1970, he was charged in the rape and killing of a 12-year-old girl. >> he had lured her onto the roof of a building, where he

sexually assaulted her, and afterwards, he threw her body off the building and killed her. he was convicted of murder. >> when you have violence in the home, it can create the dynamics that can lead to violent behavior, and in a very small percentage of cases, it can also lead to killing. in this case, clearly, that rage could propel someone to kill or to explode under certain circumstances. >> we had acquired a lot of information through various law enforcement sources, which pointed to richard kuklinski. the problem with it was there wasn't enough information to arrest him. >> the idea that was suggested was maybe, just maybe, we could

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and they alleged that he committed five murders. there were poisons involved, and if it got into your skin there, there's no way an antidote would work there. headquarters called me. they said, "are you sure you want to do this? this is a case that is totally, totally like a 'twilight zone' case." so, i said, "yeah, i want to do it." i used the name of dominic michael provenzano. >> so, to make this false persona character real, michael dominic provenzano had fake ids, fake criminal histories, mugshots on file, a fake apartment, all which were available and accessible and verifiable to solidify his credibility if anybody was trying to look at him from the outside in.

>> the main function of this investigation was get the information on how kuklinski murdered them people. bottom line, we have to meet richard kuklinski. >> he was very unpredictable. he was very cunning. he was very wary of outside people. and we knew it'd be very difficult to get an undercover into him. >> the way dominick sort of integrated himself into this world was there was a store. this was a place where guys like kuklinski used to hang out. >> i guess you could describe the store as a combination of a social club and a location where different criminal elements would meet to discuss and to purchase stolen property and other criminal activities. >> dom's generic persona cover story was that he was a guy that

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investigators and journalists and experts to track down the actual evidence to support a lot of those claims. >> did you ever let anyone go, for whatever reason? did you ever decide to let someone go? >> yes. but then i thought better of the idea and shot him anyway. >> after 18 months undercover, it was september 2, 1986, when the call came in at the store, and that's when i first met kuklinski at the dunkin' donuts in patterson, new jersey. >> if you were gonna put this on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most dangerous, it was an 11. dom's going to meet a serial killer. >> we didn't know what was gonna happen. we don't know if kuklinski has

already figured out that we're on to him. if dominick said something wrong, it could set him off, and he had the capability of killing very quickly. dominick had a lot of pressure. the entire investigation hinged on whether he could at least entice kuklinski to participate in something with him. >> and just the added subliminal, hidden pressure of knowing that the public's safety rests in your hands. what dom did was gonna depend on if innocent civilians lived or died. >> he pulls up. this son of a bitch, he was like the jolly green giant. he was a big guy. he was about 6'4", maybe 260, 265, and he wore these orange-tinged glasses.

we go into dunkin' donuts and we sit down and we're just talking generalities. >> dom knew what the reputation of kuklinski was. kuklinski believed he knew what dom's reputation was. there was no purpose in dom creating an intimidating presence for kuklinski. he's trying to warm the guy up, not drive him away. but how do you do that and still maintain your credibility and not be a puppet for this guy? >> richard was trying to likely size dominick up and to see if he was someone that could be trusted, someone who was skilled. >> he says, "you do coke?" i said, "no, i don't do coke." he says, "no, no. what do you get a kilo for?" so i said -- probably at that time, it was about $30,000 a ki. he says, "well, i can get it for

$28,000." and i said, "well, then, you should go with your guy." he goes, "you know," he says, "i know it's a good price, but i don't know if i can trust him." i look at him, i said, "you're a [bleep] idiot. you don't trust him? you don't deal with somebody you don't trust." >> dom makes a pretty bold move in challenging kuklinski. he's calling out one of the most dangerous men on the planet, and he's basically saying, you're a fool. you're crazy. you're doing narcotics deals with someone you don't trust? >> well, let me tell you something, for five seconds, he looked at me like he was grabbing my soul and saying, "i'm gonna rip your heart out. nobody talks to me that way." and he's looking at me and i'm looking at him. it was the longest five seconds you can imagine. >> he could send fear through somebody's body without saying a word, just looking at them. >> i said, this is the devil. i'm telling you, i'm sitting

down with the devil. he points his finger, and he goes, "you're right." i said, "you're damn right i'm right. you don't deal with people you don't trust." then he goes, "i hear you have a lot of connections." i said, "yeah." he said, "can you get pure cyanide?" i could have fell off the chair. >> there is a sense of urgency. >> i just have a few problems i want to dispose of. i have some rats i want to get rid of. >> the scale of danger is off the charts. it was like the ultimate chess game. you got to make a move and hope it's not the wrong move during this investigation. >> believe me when i tell you that this is foolproof. once he takes it, ingests it, no matter how he does, he's a dead man. >> when they heard their husband and father's voice explaining how to kill people and how cold and calculated he was, their

whole demeanor changed. >> through all of that time, all of these murders, barbara, you didn't know that anything was up? you lived with this man for 25 years, you knew nothing? >> the multi-agency task force launched to make a case against richard kuklinski was dubbed operation iceman. the goal was to get kuklinski comfortable enough with an undercover operative that he would talk about his crimes. the agent, dominick polifrone, would be wearing a wire, a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that could prove fatal in part two of "the iceman." i'm donnie wahlberg. thanks for watching. good night. it was a man who was begging